AJ Plaid

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Banking
Occupation Admin Assistant
Location Brooklyn, NY, United States
Introduction You may think of this as too femme or too mammy-fied or too whatever for me to do. You may want to drop your stereotypes at the door. Or take them to another blog.
Interests Pop culture (who isn't nowadays), race class gender sexuality, the fading paper culture and habits, admin-support culture, jewelry-making, photography
Favorite Movies Anything Almodovar, Shawshank Redemption (my guilty pleasure), Lone Star, Lagaan, Persepolis, Kill Bill vols 1 & 2 (esp. when I'm on my period), Lord of the Ring trilogy, Wetback: the Undocumented Documentary, The Last Seduction, Being John Malkovich, Dangerous Liaisons, anything Kar-Wai Wong, Radiant City, Wide Awake, Shoot 'Em Up
Favorite Music Sting/Police, Cassandra Wilson, DJ Rehka, Steely Dan, Everything But the Girl, most anything Chill, Celia Cruz, Ray Barretto, Talvin Singh, Yellowjackets, Pat Metheny, Digable Planets (still), Joni Mitchell
Favorite Books East of Eden (anything Steinbeck, really), Naomi Klein's No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, Barbara Ehrenreich, Susan Faludi, Race Matters, bell hooks' Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center and Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black, The God of Small Things, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, When and Where I Enter: the Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America, Ana Castillo's Massacre of the Dreamers and So Far from God, anything Julia Alvarez and Sandra Cisneros, James Baldwin's The Price of the Ticket